CONTRIBUTED BY PHIL WILLIAMS OPINION — I was pumping gas at a local station near an interstate offramp once and thought I heard a bomb go off. It...
Opinions Articles

Letter to the Editor:
Hugh Freeze Hire Dear editor, AU Athletics submitted a press release to the Nov. 30th “Opelika Observer”, which announced Hugh Freeze as the new...

Celebrating Alabama’s 203rd Birthday
BY SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE OPINION — In 1902, an Alabama woman’s experience on a snowy day produced one of the most commonly used inventions of the...
Jury Punishes AU Over Free Speech Violation
CONTRIBUTED BYJOHN BANZHAF OPINION — A jury has just imposed a whopping $500,000 verdict in punitive damages, in addition to a verdict of $145,000...
Big Tech Uses Journalism; Big Tech Should Pay For It
CONTRIBUTED BYJOHN GALER, PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL-NEWS, HILLSBORO, ILLINOISCHAIR, NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OPINION — The powers that Google...
Letter to the Editor: Keep a Killer in Prison
OPINION — To the Editor: In September 1967, Eddie Seibold deliberately murdered three children asleep in their beds in Auburn, Alabama — Lynn...

Letter to the Editor: National Rural Health Day
OPINION — On Nov. 17 we celebrate National Rural Health Day, a time to remember your friends and neighbors in Alabama’s rural hospitals. Alabama’s...

Tuberville Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner: How We Can Support and Show Appreciation for Our Military Families
CONTRIBUTED BYSEN. TOMMY TUBBERVILLE OPINION — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) authored the following op-ed, published in the Washington...

Voters Are Heroes
By PHIL WILLIAMS OPINION — In my study at home there are a number of memorials to my family’s service. There are three rifles hanging on the wall....